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Works: The cruise of the Betsey, with Rambles of a geologist
Works The cruise of the Betsey with Rambles of a geologist Author:Hugh Miller Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. The Minister's Larder — No Harbor — Eig Shoes — Tonnmiilla rrtctn — For thi Witness' Sake— Kilcan Chaistcil— Appcarance of Ei;,'g— Chapel of St. D... more »ouan — Shcll-saud — Origin of Secondary Caleareous Rock suggested — Exploration of Eigg—Pitchstonc Veins — A Bone Cave — Madsacre at Eigg— Grouping of Human Bones in the Cave — Relies — The Horse's Tooth — A Copper Sewing Needle— Teeth found — Man a worse Animal than his Teeth show him to have been designed for — Story of the Btusencre—Another Ver- eion — Scnir of Eiirg — The Scnir a Giant's Cautcway— Character of the Columns — Ik-ma Jus of a Prostrate Forest. We had rich tea this morning. The minister was among his people; and our first evidence of the fact came in the agreeable form of three bottles of fine fresh cream from the shore. Then followed an ample baking of nice oaten cakes. The material out of which the eakes were manufactured had been sent from the minister's store aboard, —for oatmeal in Eigg is rather a scarce commodity in the middle of July; but they had borrowed a crispness and flavor from the island, that the meal, left to its own resources, could scarcely have communicated; and the golden-colored cylinder of fresh butter which accompanied them was all the island's own. There was an ample supply of eggs too, as one not quite a conjuror might have expected from a country bearing such a name, — eggs with the milk in them ; and, with cream, butter, oaten cakes, eggs, and tea, all of the best, and with sharp-set sea-air appetites to boot, we fared sumptuously. There is properly no harbor in the island. We lay in a narrow channel, through which, twice every twenty-four hours, the tides sweep powerfully in one direction, and then as powerfullyin the direction opposite ; and our anchors had a trick of gettin...« less